19 Lennox Street, Edinburgh

John Tait (design altered by John Chesser), 1868-69. Terrace of 2-storey, basement and attic, 2-bay townhouses with prominent full height 3-light canted bays. Break fronted, with 4-bays to left (SE) slightly advanced; variety of later attic dormers. Sandstone ashlar; stugged, squared and snecked with droved margins to SE (Lennox Street Lane) gable, rubble to NW gable. Entrance platts oversailing basement. Banded base course; banded string course at ground floor; moulded cornice to canted bay; corniced eaves course with balustraded parapet over. Corniced doorways with large foliate console brackets; predominantly timber 2-leaf, 4-panel doors and rectangular fanlights. Raised banded surrounds to 1st floor windows. Segmental arched tile hung dormers, later shouldered arched tile hung dormer to left (No17).

SE (LENNOX STREET LANE) ELEVATION: gable with round arched windows to centre between ground and 1st floor and 1st and 2nd floor.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: coursed squared rubble with tooled ashlar rybats, lintels and cills. Roughly regular fenestration.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Pitched roof; grey slates. Corniced ashlar ridge stacks with octagonal clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Cast-iron railings edging basement area recess to street.

INTERIOR: (selection of interiors seen 2010) decorative classical scheme, characterised by intricate plasterwork, large drawing rooms and stone stairs with well-detailed balustrades, topped by large cupolas. Some later conversion to flats.